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May 24, 2023 · The term “parochial vicar” means that such a priest “represents” the pastor within the pastorate (a “vicar” is someone to whom responsibility and power for some task has been delegated by the one with authority, and “parochial” comes from the Latin word for a pastor). The bishop and/or the pastor may designate certain tasks to ...
Canon 1420 of the Code of Canon Law reads in part: §1. Each diocesan bishop is bound to appoint a judicial vicar, or officialis, with ordinary power to judge, distinct from the vicar general unless the small size of the diocese or the small number of cases suggests otherwise. §2. The judicial vicar constitutes one tribunal with the bishop but ...
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Jan 10, 2018 · Father Robert J. Rippy (front right) is the judicial vicar for the Diocese of Arlington. Just as the United States has a judiciary branch, so too every diocese has a judicial arm. It’s headed by the bishop, who typically designates a judicial vicar to oversee it.
In the Roman Catholic Church, a judicial vicar or episcopal official (Latin: officialis) is an officer of the diocese who has ordinary power to judge cases in the diocesan ecclesiastical court. Although the diocesan bishop can reserve certain cases to himself, the judicial vicar and the diocesan bishop are a single tribunal, which means that ...
Can. 463 §1. The following must be called to a diocesan synod as members of the synod and are obliged to participate in it: 1/ a coadjutor bishop and auxiliary bishops; 2/ vicars general, episcopal vicars, and the judicial vicar; 3/ canons of the cathedral church; 4/ members of the presbyteral council;
Apr 5, 2014 · Father Greg Luyet, a native of North Little Rock, is now the judicial vicar for the Diocese of Little Rock. Thinking back on what attracted him to canon law — and as of Dec. 1, the role of judicial vicar for the Diocese of Little Rock — Father Greg Luyet recalled he was baptized by a canon lawyer, grew up in a parish with a canon lawyer for ...
Judicial Vicar – Given ordinary (independent) judicial power to act as one with the Diocesan Bishop in the adjudication of all internal legal affairs of the Church. Petitioner – One who submits a petition to the Tribunal for the investigation of a marriage or other internal legal affair of the Church. Respondent
